1592999394000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-18827 1747160049784 1714399909000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-18827 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18827 5e238a1d-2873-3b5a-b66e-dd653b1a1f2c 9 reference term-86575 adlib-term-86575 5649d0d3-83e1-34de-a436-f231b1f04c9b weapons reference term-108941 adlib-term-108941 bda2218a-91c2-3b79-99c1-49e47cc3aff1 J.S. Henderson or latten reference term-39588 adlib-term-39588 b17ff981-06b2-30a2-b9a9-b514fe84a191 copper Inlay reference term-33522 adlib-term-33522 d2a924aa-f118-3a9e-b2bc-10e6f461aee6 wire reference term-40902 adlib-term-40902 ec39a220-e629-3548-92f0-14937d5d3167 leather Bound Tang Depth cm 15 Diameter cm 6 Pommel Length cm 89.5 Blade Width cm 28.5 Grip Width cm 30.5 Cross Width cm 4.9 Blade At Hilt Decoration reference term-26908 adlib-term-26908 93db4eba-7855-3a51-a5b6-3c0d8390f722 incising reference term-27645 adlib-term-27645 c489df47-4067-3e45-80d3-a0c71cedaaf8 inlay (process) reference term-23385 adlib-term-23385 4c17df77-7d4e-32bf-8ec9-921b71d218a2 religion Applied Arts Hand-and-a-half sword or bastard sword. ('Great sword', or 'War Sword', or 'Great Espee d'Allegmagne'). Type XIIIA. Very deep wheel-shaped pommel with very small central boss, with a cross (once inlaid with latten or copper) or incised on one face. Long tang, with restored 19th century grip. Straight cross of rectangular section widening toward the tips from broadened midpoint. Long, heavy blade, tapering very slightly with a wide shallow fuller running two-thirds of its length. HEN.M.188-1933 1 accession number HEN.M.188-1933 18827 priref 18827 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18827 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18827 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-154334 adlib-agent-154334 28c0c8e2-3ec7-3d3a-9e13-b60fa3a6b434 Henderson, James Stewart 1933 1933 1933-03-16 bequeathed Bequeathed by Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex, 1933, bequest no. B172 1250 1250 CE 1250 circa 1250 1350 1 1350 CE 1350 1350 probably production reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown Big hand-and-a-half swords of this kind were very popular, according to many literary reference and much pictorial and monumental evidence, during the century 1250-1350, though it is now known that they were in use at least a century earlier. The fact that contemporary writers referred to them as 'Grans Espees d'Allemagne' (Great swords of Germany), and that German monumental sculpture shows very many of them, does suggest a German tendency. However, they are also shown upon very many Spanish effigies of the same period. There are also many 13th and early 14th century references to 'Espees de Guerre', 'Swords of War', 'Schlachtschwerte' and so on to distinguish them from the smaller kind of sword ('Arming Sword' in 15th century English) and to set them apart for their prime use as battle-swords. They are not to be confused with two-handed swords. A sword of the same dimensions with a similar hilt, including the cross in the central boss of the pommel, is on the tomb-effigy at Bopfingen in Wurttemburg, dated 1359, and there are others in Germany, Spain and England, all dating between c.1320-1360, too numerous to mention individually. This sword has a long, slightly tapering blade, common right across Europe from the late 12th to the 14th centuries. The grip, which is a restoration, is long enough to use an extra hand when greater force was needed. 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23cfaa43-b709-3fd6-bef9-50e7034f7ff4 hand-and-a-half sword bastard sword history note Sold at the Helbing Gallery at Munich 1908 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference publication-1809 adlib-publication-1809 c679fcbc-7514-3602-bacd-e075bed039e7 A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries reference publication-1865 adlib-publication-1865 12e92654-f4ce-3b44-a5f8-2f393d3e7a5e The Sword in the Age of Chivalry reference publication-1867 adlib-publication-1867 463fbb1f-aac3-3464-b385-4bcbcd16e35d Europaische Hieb und Stichwaffen: aus der Sammlung des Museums für Deutsche Geschichte object name reference term-108538 adlib-term-108538 795ce314-a9bb-3fcc-9c39-4b671ec72fc3 cross literal cross cross reference term-109192 adlib-term-109192 23cfaa43-b709-3fd6-bef9-50e7034f7ff4 hand-and-a-half sword hand-and-a-half sword sword, cast, with either inlaid copper or latten decoration, or incised cross decoration 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